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Background effects reminds me of ef, seems like Oonuma Shin is an assistant director. The color looks strange, probably because the video quality. There's a lot less still image than the usual Shaft anime, which makes it not very Shaft-ish...

Uwa~h... Saw the preview for the anime at the end of Minami-ke... I think I just remembered why I stopped reading the manga... But to think the art was this similar. Heroine's(?) face feels too long, the protagonist makes me want to run in the opposite direction, and the st... stor... Never mind about that...
Though one can't judge from the preview!... I hope.

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For what 15 seconds I heard of the opening theme, it strikes me as being like most OPs under Shaft - just out of the ordinary enough and bound to be set to animation that'll have it ringing in my head long after it finishes.

If you're talking about ef colors then it strikes me as well. Not that it's a bad thing, I just think it doesn't fit well with the series, and why repeating the same style? I'm trying to believe the ef colors are only restricted inside Hakobune, just like the official website but now I'm just badly disappointed.

SHAFT does not do well with things that aren't already strange and incessantly random.

Why Studio Comet couldn't get ahold of this like they did with School Rumble I don't know.

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Originally Posted by Malkuth

Which is not necessarily a bad thing, especially considering that I only heard negative commentary for the manga (though I have personally no opinion).

The manga's author is an idiot, but the manga itself is not bad, and I really love his art style, for that matter.

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Originally Posted by sirn

If you're talking about ef colors then it strikes me as well. Not that it's a bad thing, I just think it doesn't fit well with the series, and why repeating the same style? I'm trying to believe the ef colors are only restricted inside Hakobune, just like the official website but now I'm just badly disappointed.

I was more talking about quality, design and generally not looking like the manga at all.

Man the protagonist looks like so much more of a twat now. Not that he ISN'T a twat, but...

For the character design, I think it's quite close to the manga (except Yayoi). Note that Kobayashi Jin changed his art style around the end of vol.2 to the beginning of vol.3 then changed again in the middle of vol.4, so the anime character design is close to his current art style rather than first few chapters.

Comparison image (from vol.3, since I don't have a scanner for vol.4):